Operabase425.000 performances on file since 1996;Seasons of 900+ opera companies, around 25,000 performances each year

The five seasons 2008/9 to 2012/13Works from 1161 different composers were played, of whom more than half (600) are livingA total of 2415 different works were given, including 300 world premieres over the 5 seasons

Total number of performances by country, for the 2012/13 season.In brackets, the national populations in millions. As Operabase collected about 24,500 performances in this season, Germany is mounting about 30% of all opera performances globally.
Compared with our previous statistics, we have a lot more data from the east of Europe: Russia moves into third place, and the Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria all appear in the top 20 for the first time.

1

de

Tyskland

7230

(81.758m)

2

us

USA

1730

(308.746m)

3

ru

Russland

1441

(141.927m)

4

fr

Frankrike

1288

(65.822m)

5

at

Østerrike

1252

(8.356m)

6

it

Italia

1162

(60.419m)

7

uk

Storbritannia

1023

(62.042m)

8

cz

Tsjekkia

863

(10.675m)

9

ch

Sveits

795

(7.786m)

10

pl

Polen

619

(38.192m)

11

hu

Ungarn

608

(9.942m)

12

es

Spania

531

(46.030m)

13

ua

Ukraina

407

(44.854m)

14

se

Sverige

405

(9.354m)

15

au

Australia

334

(22.560m)

16

ro

Romania

275

(21.959m)

17

bg

Bulgaria

264

(7.577m)

18

be

Belgia

260

(10.828m)

19

sk

Slovakia

256

(5.430m)

20

tr

Tyrkia

232

(75.627m)

Land, per capitaTop

The number of performances per million citizens.In brackets, the total number of performances and the population in millions.The top five in the table are unchanged, with Austria still dominating the top position.

1

at

Østerrike

149.8

(1252 /

8.356m)

2

ch

Sveits

102.1

(795 /

7.786m)

3

ee

Estland

95.5

(128 /

1.340m)

4

de

Tyskland

88.4

(7230 /

81.758m)

5

cz

Tsjekkia

80.8

(863 /

10.675m)

6

hu

Ungarn

61.2

(608 /

9.942m)

7

lt

Litauen

52.1

(169 /

3.244m)

8

si

Slovenia

51.2

(105 /

2.049m)

9

sk

Slovakia

47.1

(256 /

5.430m)

10

se

Sverige

43.3

(405 /

9.354m)

11

lu

Luxembourg

41.8

(21 /

0.502m)

12

no

Norge

38.9

(192 /

4.938m)

13

hr

Kroatia

37.4

(168 /

4.486m)

14

bg

Bulgaria

34.8

(264 /

7.577m)

15

dk

Danmark

34.2

(190 /

5.558m)

16

fi

Finland

30.5

(164 /

5.375m)

17

lv

Latvia

24.3

(54 /

2.218m)

18

be

Belgia

24.0

(260 /

10.828m)

19

fr

Frankrike

19.6

(1288 /

65.822m)

20

it

Italia

19.2

(1162 /

60.419m)

ByerTop

The number of performances in each city, in the 2012/13 season.The figure given in brackets is the urban population in millions.

1

at (#1)

Wien

578

(2.00m)

2

de (#1)

Berlin

523

(3.44m)

3

fr (#1)

Paris

437

(10.20m)

4

ru (#1)

Moscow

424

(10.56m)

5

ru (#2)

St Petersburg

377

(4.88m)

6

cz (#1)

Praha

374

(1.25m)

7

uk (#1)

London

344

(8.28m)

8

de (#2)

Hamburg

335

(1.77m)

9

hu (#1)

Budapest

331

(2.52m)

10

us (#1)

New York

299

(18.22m)

11

de (#3)

Dresden

295

(0.78m)

12

de (#4)

München

246

(2.61m)

13

ch (#1)

Zurich

229

(0.37m)

14

se (#1)

Stockholm

214

(1.25m)

15

de (#5)

Frankfurt

184

(2.29m)

16

au (#1)

Sydney

178

(3.64m)

17

es (#1)

Madrid

172

(3.26m)

18

de (#6)

Stuttgart

162

(1.80m)

19

de (#7)

Leipzig

157

(1.00m)

20

pl (#1)

Wroclaw

155

(0.63m)

KomponisterTop

Composers ranked by the number of performances of their operas over the five seasons 2008/09 to 2012/13